IPCC exaggerates risks

5:53 PM,
Oct. 17, 2013

Written by

Joseph L. Bast
The Heartland Institute

Environmentalists hoped the latest study from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change would finally end the increasingly acrimonious debate over the causes and consequences of climate change. It has had the opposite effect.

MIT physicist Richard Lindzen called the IPCC report "hilarious incoherence." British historian Rupert Darwall labeled it "nonsense" and "the manipulation of science for political ends." Judith Curry of the Georgia Institute of Technology says the IPCC suffers from "paradigm paralysis" and should be "put down."